Antonyms and synonyms
An antonym has the opposite meaning
to a given word.
A synonym has the same or similar
meaning to a given word.
Word
Antonym
Word
Synonyms
thin
thick
big
open
closed
light
heavy/dark
lose
find
forget
remember
harsh
gentle
harmful
harmless
something
nothing
large, bulky,
burly, capacious,
colossal, enormous,
extensive,
fat, gigantic,
heavyweight,
hefty, huge,
humongous,
immense, jumbo,
mammoth,
massive, roomy,
sizable, spacious,
tremendous, vast
arrival
departure
buy
sell
small
true
false
full
empty
guilty
innocent
pretty
ugly
little, diminutive,
limited, meager,
microscopic,
mini, miniature,
minuscule, minute,
petite, pint-sized,
puny, runty, short,
slight, stunted,
teeny, trivial,
undersized
backwards
forwards
Using a thesaurus
The following thesaurus websites have useful information about antonyms and synonyms.
http://thesaurus.com
http://freethesaurus.net/
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/thesaurus/entry_index
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